This is a Delicious Pancake

[LordRetard]

So you know exactly WHERE you are!

[Rainbow]

I don't know where here is.

[FengharTheNord]

Wherewolf?

[Sahan]

That is such a sexist term, it implies that all manwolves are male.

[mountainmage]

Wherewolf?

There, Wolf.

There, castle.

I ate some beef stir fry with rice noodles, tofu, and an assortment of vegetables. And not the frozen crap either. We went out and bought the ingredients.

[Cirtur]

That is such a sexist term, it implies that all manwolves are male.

No it doesn't. were means human.

[Rainbow]

Yeah, human, sexist!

[Cirtur]

There's a perfectly legitimate reason it's spelt like that. Men are better.

[Sahan]

Well apparently, man is traditionally a gender neutral term. A male man would be referred to as a wereman and and female man would be a wifman. This is all from Dinosaur Comics however, LR is probably going to correct me on this.

[hawhaw1267]

A mailman would be referred to as a wereman and and femailman would be a wifman.

This is what I read. Sahan is always targeting the poor mailmen.

[Rainbow]

Sahan, I just now got your signature and it makes me happy. In my defense on the it taking this long, I only read it once before and I was probably sleep-deprived.

[Cirtur]

That's because every time he kills them he sends a letter with a piece of the flesh inside to his house, thereby repeating the process.

[hawhaw1267]

That sick sick man!

[LordRetard]

Well apparently, man is traditionally a gender neutral term. A male man would be referred to as a wereman and and female man would be a wifman. This is all from Dinosaur Comics however, LR is probably going to correct me on this.

I don't know anything about this, actually, except to say that language has changed and the terms no longer mean what they originally did. The only real remaining use is the term "man and wife", which confuses many people still and has fallen out of favour.

I actually came up with a realisation about PC gender neutral bullplop lately (when I was in the shower this morning). Now, many people are familiar with the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, which suggests that thought is based on language, and the thought expressible is determined as such, and then there's that myth about "so many words for snow" and shit. But then I realised, wouldn't that indicate just the opposite? If there were that many words for snow, it would mean that they live in a snowy place; not the other way around (somehow). Therefore, a high number of gender-specific, non-PC words indicates an existing discrepancy in society, that cannot be repaired by trying to fix the language, in fact the language cannot be "fixed" until the problem in society is fixed. Pretty wacky. I think that the interchangeability of many words (ex. his, hers, theirs, when gender is not known) actually indicates relative acceptance of both genders. Compare to Latin American Spanish, where male words mean "cool" and female words mean "bitch".

[smiley_cow]

Maybe it's because I've spoken some French most of my life but the idea of using man as a gender neutral term makes perfect sense to me. I'm thinking specifically of phrases such as Mankind, the follies of man, etc...*

When people star going on about we should change man to persons to be more PC that just sounds odd to me. Man is fine.


*In French if you have a group of people and they're not all the same gender you default to masculine. So even if the group is all women except for a single man, you would still use the pronoun ils (they) instead of elles(still they, but only used to refer to women). It's not really a gender thing at all, it's just a grammar thing. Just like how objects have gender, people don't really think there's anything feminine about a table, it just happens to take the pronoun elle.